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by msravi 5y ago
That's a good philosophical position to take, except when you're in charge of the law and order of a city, and you have messages such as these doing the rounds in the midst of a large scale protest. The messages are used to legiti
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by msravi 5y ago
No, they did not take them down immediately (or even the same day) when it mattered. They took them down some 2 or 3 days or so after the incident, after the government cried foul and there was a big brouhaha about the whole thing. The new
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by msravi 5y ago
> without explicitly calling for violent uprisings, etc So that's the problem in this context. Twitter WAS being used to call for a violent uprising in the name of a blatantly false non-existent "genocide": https:/&#
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Just to be clear, the law doesn't require that the role be filled by an Indian citizen. It just requires that the person be a resident of India.
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by msravi 5y ago
> That plus forcing the company to hire government-approved executives Where did you get that from? Completely untrue. The new IT rules mandate the appointment of persons in certain executive roles, and companies, including Twitter, have
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by msravi 5y ago
I have read the arricle, and more. OTOH, you're deliberately seeking to mislead by being vague on the "afterwards." I'm going to stop responding to your diatribe devoid of facts.
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> Afterwards, once successfully deployed, said malware was used to plant evidence on the acrivists computers. When?
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The defense team contended that the evidence in question was planted by the NIA to target the "activists". But even by the Arsenal report, that malware was installed some 22 months before the outbreak of violence - which means the
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by msravi 5y ago
In yoga, this kind of deliberate, deep, controlled breathing is called Prānāyāma, and literally means "breath control" or "life-force control"
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Notice how that none of the reports mention how the sanctity of the chain of custody of the hard disk has been preserved. The forensics lab in Pune, which is the authorized lab for examining this kind of data, and which examined the disk wh
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by msravi 5y ago
I think it's clear from the context that OP was referring to manipulation based on ideological biases tainting search results, versus, mnipulation (ranking) based on relavence of search.
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There is also the context that Twitter refused to remove blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets during the farmers' protests in which the Red Fort was breached similar to the Capitol Hill riots. Also, more recently, Twitter
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Ok, so why isn't there an option to just buy the thing at its actual cost without the subsidy and without ads? Are they unable to put a $ value on how much the ads will garner them over, say, a 3-year period? FWIW, I have Linux Mint on
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by msravi 5y ago
From the description of the PoC at https://www.wizcase.com/blog/hack-2018/ curl -kX GET -d ‘bim=param`whoami`’ https:///panel/rest/configuration How does one get to resolve /panel&#
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I use nb ( https://github.com/xwmx/nb ) and sync to gitlab. The best part of nb, is that you can bookmark a url, and nb will keep a copy of the page with the bookmarked url. So if the page disappears later, you still hav
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by msravi 5y ago
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that
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by msravi 5y ago
This was exactly my thought. Each header on that page makes zero sense to me. Maybe because I have no clue about WHAT the product tests. Does it test an app? Does it validate a marketing idea? Does it test the user interface of a prototype
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by msravi 5y ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27012687
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100k Kilometres of Roads in India Made from Plastic Waste (2018)(swachhindia.ndtv.com)
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India has been doing this since Nov-2015, when the central government made it mandatory for road-layers to use plastic waste. As of Oct-2018, 100,000 kms of roads had been constructed using plastic waste. https://swachhindia.ndtv
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by msravi 6y ago
There's also NaSC on Linux: https://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/ And CalcNote on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burton999....
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by msravi 6y ago
Who picks up the tab for all this (both for the work done to free the ship and the losses by Suez authorities and other ships)? The company operating the ship? The ship owner? The insurance company? Suez authorities?
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by msravi 6y ago
Thank you. The setting is under Settings->Accessibility if anyone is looking for it.
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There are no Hindu countries presently.
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OP's point is that you can write anything in the constitution - that it can never be changed, or whatever - but that's of no value whatsoever, if a large majority of people agree and decide that it's an invalid document.
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by msravi 6y ago
Oh, the infrastructure has been/is being laid. It's called BharatNet. 154,000 villages (of around 600,000) are now connected using OFC[1] With private service providers in a city, I pay around $15/month for a 150Mbps connecti
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by msravi 6y ago
Don't know where OP lives, but here in India, I lost my driver's license a long time ago and only "carry" a digital copy of it in an app called DigiLocker. Digilocker also contains registration documents of all vehicles
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by msravi 6y ago
I'm not a native english speaker either, but typically, in American usage, "office hours" refers to published, allocated hours for someone, such as a professor at a university, to allow walk-ins where (s)he can answer student
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by msravi 6y ago
I was one of those users who made the move from Twitter to Koo. I think what really pushed me and several several others to do so, was the arrogance that Twitter showed to an elected government, for a legitimate takedown of accounts that we
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by msravi 6y ago
There are a few more nuances to this, probably depending on place and circumstance. 1. It's not necessary, for instance, that the person being referred to by the kid is "known". It's quite common, for example, for kids t

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